Method 4 – Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool.However, there are times when a flash drive has some quirk that prevents it from working with a particular solution, so for that reason, this article takes a look at five different methods. Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully care about a wanna be techie.Creating a bootable Windows USB drive used to be a chore, but today, one solution can pretty-well suit most people. Any suggestions besides expensive paper weight would be GREATLY appreciated. Problem is my EX brother n law gave me thgis comp that he built w/o cd and I have no way of getting it from him. I would like to know if I am up the creek or would a reformat fix it.
Since trying to fix this an even bigger dumbbut of a friend tried to install xp home in a seperate location which when it restarts to finish setup results in endless loop. When I hit crtl+s I get the screen to load from various options. If I do nothing it endlessly loops til I manually shutdown. When I came back and started comp up it goes from a screen with my comp info and the hit f8 page to a smaller hit page. I manually shut my system down and went for a smoke. Which resulted in the program not responding message.
Within 10 minutes the first 3 updates failed so I tried to cancel the update process. After the updates started I noticed I had forgot and left a mmo game running.
I was recently trying to install windows pro updates, do not remember which ones but there were 12. Ok, I am extremely computer (and spelling) illiterate so sorry. Installing on top of and can understand a prior installation. Use them only if you want aĬomplete re-install of Windows – possibly losing any prior customĬonfiguration changes you made, depending on whether setup is WARNING: character.exe and winnt32.exe are the “start-from-scratch”, “do-it-all-over-setup” programs. Why a 16 bit version? If you can’t run winnt32.exe andĪre able to boot from an MS-DOS floppy or are able to boot to Win9xĭOS mode, then this setup program will work for you. winnt.exe is the “16 bit” version of the character mode.winnt32.exe is the “32 bit” version of the character.If you don’t have one, you may haveĪn image of the CD on your hard disk. The first step would be to run your installation CD. (See this article if you don’t have one.)įinally, if you really, honestly and truly want to re-install windows, Sfc may ask for your installation CD-ROM. Type: “ sfc /scannow” without the quotes followed by Enter.
Utility validates that all of Windows’ system files are correct and If you’re looking to reinstall system files because you suspectĬorruption what you really need is the System File Checker. You can select the optional Windows components to add or remove. That will bring up the dialog that’s extremely similar to setup in which